President of the Grand Paris Alliance, a think-tank on urban future, and the co-owner of Renaissance Urbaine, specialized in the transformation of complex urban ecosystems (France)
He has been elected in 2017 a member of the U.N. General Assembly of Partners (GAP) Executive Committee, in charge of implementing the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nicolas J.A. Buchoud is managing the activity of CUR, the Centre for urban studies and regional development at the National Research Tomsk State University (TSU), and is a member of the international advisory council for the Siberian Institute for the Future at TSU.